How to copy column based on cell value to another sheet?
Supposing you have a range of data in Sheet 1, and each column header is a date, and now you want to copy the whole column from Sheet 1 to Sheet 3 based on the date in Cell A1 of Sheet 2 as below screenshot shown. In this tutorial, I will introduce a trick on solving this job in Excel.
Copy column to another sheet based on cell value with formula
Copy column to another sheet based on cell value with formula
Here is an lNDEX formula in Excel can help you to quickly extract the column data to another sheet based on a cell value.
1. Select a blank cell which you want to place the extracted column, for instance, Cell A1 in Sheet 3, and then enter this formula =INDEX(Sheet1!$A1:$E1,MATCH(Sheet2!$A$1,Sheet1!$A$1:$E$1,0)) and press Enter key to extract the first data, then drag auto fill handle down to until zero appears. See screenshot:
2. Then remove the zero cells as you need.

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